THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE PS4 NPL VNSW MEN’S ROUND 12 • LILYS 3PM • SUNDAY FOOTBALL CENTRE 28TH MAY 2017

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n behalf of City FC, we would were well structured. He also commented that Olike to welcome our members, supporters, there weren’t many chances in the first half and players to our home ground Lilys Football but felt that the team had a few chances in the Centre for today’s Round 12 match against second half to take the lead. In the end a draw Hakoah City East FC. was a true reflection of the game. This week is Heritage Round and we would Our 18s recorded a 2-1 loss. Coach Nick Verdos like to thank all former players, coaches & said that it was disappointing not to get any administration that have helped shape this points out of a match that we dominated for historic club to where it is now. To our Under the most part. He also said that the team 12s players who are acting as ball boys & also will need to regroup and bounce back to the to the parents who are volunteering a big winners circle this week. thank you from the club. Again thanks to all our sponsors and partners First Grade recorded a 0-0 draw last week, in for their continued support. a very tough encounter with Sydney United 58 FC. Assistant coach Luke Roodenburg was Best of luck to our Youth teams who are disappointed not to get the win, but it seemed playing against Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC and no team wanted to lose. The game was very also our SAP teams who are playing against defensive and in the end a draw was a fair Blacktown Spartans FC this weekend. result. Enjoy a great day of football and we hope On Wednesday 31st May we play our Round 7 to see you again at our next home game in FFA Cup match against Bulli FC, and hope that Round 14 on Sunday 11th June, when we host the team can get through and advance to the Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC. final 32. Kind Regards Our 20s also had a 0-0 draw to Sydney United Chris Michael last week. Coach John Carnevale said that it Business Development & Marketing Manager was a typical 2nd v 3rd clash and both teams Blacktown City Football Club

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lacktown City FC held strong last round Bagainst a relentless Sydney United 58 to record a hard fought draw and will be looking to go one better when Hakoah Sydney City East come to Lilys Football Stadium Mark Crittenden’s City side have been pace setters this season and will be determined to make up for their last gasp 1-1 draw with Hakoah in Round 1. James Andrew has been an inspired signing for Blacktown this season and will once again be an attacking for City on the left wing. Hakoah will look to once again build on their reputation as PlayStation®4 NSW Men’s competition giant killers with another upset result. Any slip up from Blacktown and Hakoah will surely punish their opposition’s mistakes.

1ST GRADE - PLAYSTATION 4 NPL NSW MEN’S POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS

1 APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC 11 8 0 3 25 11 14 24

2 Blacktown City FC 11 7 3 1 21 11 10 24

3 Sydney United 58 FC 11 7 1 3 23 11 12 22

4 Sydney Olympic FC 11 6 3 2 16 10 6 21

5 Rockdale City Suns FC 11 6 2 3 23 18 5 20

6 Manly United FC 11 5 3 3 26 21 5 18

7 Hakoah Sydney City East FC 11 4 4 3 19 15 4 16

8 Wollongong Wolves FC 11 4 1 6 11 16 -5 13

9 Sydney FC 11 3 1 7 17 24 -7 10

10 Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC 11 2 2 7 20 33 -13 8

11 Sutherland Sharks FC 11 2 0 9 16 29 -13 6

12 Parramatta FC 11 1 2 8 13 31 -18 5

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Blacktown City FC 0 - Sydney United 58 FC 0 at Lilys Football Stadium Blacktown City has held out a rampant Sydney United 58 in the PlayStation®4 National Premier Leagues NSW Men’s Round 11 fixture at Lilys Football Centre. The Reds came into the game coming off a seven-game winning streak and at times looked like they would topple the competition’s best. However, City maintained a strong defensive game and were able to keep them out before nearly stealing it on several occasions. It was a fierce PlayStation®4 National Premier Leagues NSW Men’s Grand Final rematch with both side’s surely happy to take home a point.

Manly United FC 1 - Hakoah Sydney City East FC 1 at Manly United had to dig deep to snatch a point in a 1-1 PlayStation®4 National Premier Leagues NSW Men’s draw against Hakoah on Saturday night at Cromer Park. Warren Grieve’s squad have been hammered by injuries in recent weeks, but it didn’t excuse their first half performance - it was undoubtedly their worst of 2017. Anthony Frangie put Hakoah in the lead after 20 minutes but a second half strike from Nikola Taneski ensured the home side took a point from the clash.

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7 FEATURE STORY #PS4NPLNSW WALKING DOWN

Before I moved from Auckland, New Zealand League and Aussie rules were the most popular to Sydney many moons ago, my impression winter games, the games for the masses. And of Australian sporting culture was rather one finally, there was football - working class to the core dimensional and naive. but often regarded as the black sheep on the local My viewpoint was purely based on what I’d seen of sporting landscape. Australian national teams in sports such as rugby Why? Because unlike the others, football was union, rugby league and netball, codes that enjoy a the one and only sport that truly represented popular following in my homeland. the multicultural melting pot that is modern day Back then, whenever New Zealand lined up against Australia. Australia in each of these sports, those who wore I even turned out for a South American side in the green and gold were predominantly white an Ethnic Cup tournament (apparently my Maori Australians of British heritage. Players with names genes gave me the look required to qualify for like Shaw, O’Connor, Lynagh and Hawker. Rogers, the team) and couldn’t believe the popularity of Cronin and Reddy. To me, that was normal. the event and the technical brilliance showed by the Latinos and continental Europeans. The Brits Australian football (soccer) meanwhile, was weren’t too bad either and part-timers or not, the completely different. talent on display was astounding. As a youngster, my first sporting love was football Fast forward to 1996 and I’m a rookie (soccer). I played for Mt , one of the most photojournalist earning a crust contributing words successful clubs in the country, and represented and pictures to a weekly rag called Inside Soccer. As Auckland at the Under 16 nationals. part of my beat, I don’t miss a home game involving I remember watching my senior team, the national NSL giants Sydney United, Sydney Olympic and league champions of New Zealand, play a Trans- Marconi Stallions. Tasman challenge match against Australian NSL I also cover various games in the NSW state champions Marconi. I also remember looking leagues, visiting clubs such as Blacktown City, through the match program and noting that while Bonnyrigg White Eagles, APIA Leichhardt Tigers, every Mt Wellington player was of Anglo-Celtic Manly, Melita, Rockdale and Sutherland. heritage (plenty of Poms and Scots in that lineup), the Stallions’ team was very different. European I gradually learn the storied histories of clubs that names such as Prskalo, Jankovics, Krncevic and were established by ethnic communities as long Vieri jumped off the page and hit me squarely ago as the 1950s, when an avalanche of European between the eyes. immigrants flooded into the urban capitals of Sydney and , changing the demographic Being a curious fellow, I wondered where these of a nation. players with the exotic names had come from and Italians, Greeks, Croatians, Serbians, Macedonians, wondered why they were playing for an Australian Maltese and the Jewish community formed their team. own football clubs across Sydney and those clubs Little did I know that my interest in that Marconi played a huge role in the assimilation process. Stallions side was the beginning of a love affair These communities identified with their football with Australian football and a journey that would clubs as outlets for social interaction and a sense of lead me to write a bit about a game that I’d come belonging. The clubs also attracted to their games to adore. large and boisterous crowds that were both the Not long after watching the Trans-Tasman stoush, envy and the bane of the locals. I moved to Sydney and realised that not only My football journey continues as I attend matches was multiculturalism alive and well in Australia’s and training sessions and press conferences. I read largest city, the sporting landscape here was vastly about the history of the local game and like every different to the one I’d left behind. self-respecting “football addict” get my TV fix on Unlike New Zealand, rugby in Australia was SBS. I speak to people involved at all levels, from dominated by private school old boys and grass roots to the top end, enhancing my football university-educated chaps who earned a crust in education and enjoyment of the game. I can’t get the professions. Doctors, lawyers and stock brokers enough. were a dime a dozen within the Wallaby ranks. In 1996, Branko Culina’s Sydney United are the 8 FEATURE STORY NPLNSW.COM.AU

aristocrats of the Australian game and with the unfortunately, despite the incredible success of the likes of , , , team, City just couldn’t draw a crowd and due to and , it’s no surprise financial considerations, the club made the decision that they play a sublime brand of football that to withdraw from the national competition. takes them all the way to the NSL Grand Final. After some years in the wilderness, Hakoah Sydney Unfortunately, Culina’s men suffer an upset away City East two years ago won promotion to the loss to Strikers in front of a record crowd PlayStation4 NPL NSW Men’s competition and have of 44,000. since managed to hold their own against the best At Olympic, I admire the goal-scoring nous of of the best in NSW. Kris Trajanovski and , the skill and Meanwhile, I discover that Blacktown City is by majesty of Milan Blagojevic, and the industry of far the most successful club in NSW state league Peter Tsekenis. There’s also a 17-year-old kid by history, winning more Premierships and more the name of who will go on to play Championships (i.e. grand finals) than anyone else. almost 100 games for the club before forging a career at Dutch giants , and Blackburn Sydney United 58 are a close second on the Rovers in the English . leaderboard, while other clubs such as Parramatta FC, Bonnyrigg White Eagles, Hakoah Sydney City Meanwhile, over the coming years I also grow East, APIA Leichhardt Tigers, Sutherland, South to admire the Wollongong Wolves, who claim Coast Wolves, Sydney Olympic, Manly United, and consecutive NSL Premierships in 1999-2000 and Rockdale City Suns also have their names proudly 2000-2001 with a talented roster that includes engraved on the honours boards out at Football , and Paul Reid. The Wolves capture the imagination of the local football NSW. community and prove that even a club from Meanwhile, it needs to be said that while the regional NSW can foot it with the best. ethnic clubs established by European migrants all Olympic win their second NSL title in 2001-2002, those years ago provided the foundation stones with Ante Milicic grabbing the winner in the Grand for football in NSW, (indeed, in Australia), district/ Final against Glory before 42,000 fans in the association clubs such as Manly United and far west. Sutherland Sharks have been just as important to the local game, providing opportunities for players But despite the big grand final crowds, the NSL is and fans alike and boasting rich histories dating as struggling and by early 2004, the competition is far back as 1930 (Sutherland). shut down and replaced by the new A-League. There’s also a misconception that the Brits, the The collapse of the NSL sees the likes of Sydney Irish and the Aussies haven’t had too much of an United, Sydney Olympic, Wollongong Wolves and influence on local football, but nothing could be Marconi reacquaint themselves with other former further from the truth, as players, coaches and national league clubs APIA Leichhardt, Blacktown administrators from those backgrounds have been City, Parramatta Eagles and St George in the NSW at the forefront of the local game for decades. Premier League, the elite state competition that kicked off way back in 1957. This weekend Heritage Round will be celebrated at various grounds around Sydney. It’s a round Today, Marconi and Saints no longer play at the that holds special significance for NSW clubs and state’s elite level, having been relegated to the celebrates their history and the contribution they’ve second tier; but another former NSL club, and the made to the football landscape since the start of most successful of them all, Hakoah Sydney City the 20th century. East, has re-emerged from the wilderness to again take their place in the sun. So to the players and fans who are involved this weekend, enjoy the football and regardless of the Established by Jewish migrants in 1939, Hakoah Sydney City East won five state Premierships and history of your club, take a moment to remember four grand finals before emerging as the most the significance of the occasion. Not just in a successful club in history, footballing sense, but also in an historical sense. winning four Championships under the name of After all, football history is Australian history and Sydney City in 1977, 1980, 1981 and 1982. for me, it’s a rich one that I’ve been blessed to enjoy The club boasted some of this nation’s finest ever since that Marconi side with the exotic names footballers, including , Jim Patikas, John rolled into Auckland all those years ago. Kosmina, and . But By Derek Royal, Football NSW Reporter 9 UNDER 20s #PS4NPLNSW

24 Jake MAMONE 13 Jordan SWIBEL 25 Ben PARKINSON 20 Samuel MEHMET 26 Mason IRELAND 21 Julian RINALDI 27 Nathan PHILLIPS 22 Rami ALASSMI 29 Lewis FRASER 23 Steven KATSIONIS 30 Adolph KOUDAKPO 24 Manoli NICOLAOU 31 25 Dau AKOL 32 John AZAR 26 Jonathan DIMOPOULOS 34 Jarrod DODDS 27 Nathan ROBERTS 35 Anthony GALLO 28 Satchel KOLT 36 Isaac DANDAN 30 Connor ELDRIDGE 37 Dan MACHARA 32 Joshua ORCHARD 38 Evan PATRAMANIS 34 Liam THOMAS 39 Mason INGRAM 37 GK Jacob SAYLE 38 Finley HAYHURST 39 GK Matthew LYNCH 40 Michael KOUTA Coach: John Carnevale 45 GK Michael FIGUEIRA Assistant Coach: Andrew Montgomery Coach: Paul Hubbard Manager: Aaron Bywater Assistant Coach: Andy Norman Manager: Brian Ree

UNDER 20s - PLAYSTATION 4 NPL NSW MEN’S POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Sutherland Sharks FC 11 8 2 1 35 11 24 26 2 Sydney United 58 FC 11 6 2 3 17 11 6 20 3 Blacktown City FC 11 6 2 3 17 12 5 20 4 APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC 11 6 1 4 28 16 12 19 5 Sydney Olympic FC 11 5 2 4 19 20 -1 17 6 Sydney FC 10 4 4 2 18 8 10 16 7 Manly United FC 11 4 2 5 24 23 1 14 8 Hakoah Sydney City East FC 11 4 2 5 14 15 -1 14 9 Rockdale City Suns FC 11 3 3 5 10 21 -11 12 10 Wollongong Wolves FC 10 3 1 6 16 23 -7 10 11 Parramatta FC 10 2 1 7 10 20 -10 7 12 Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC 10 1 2 7 9 37 -28 5

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lacktown City remain hot on the heels of BSutherland but will be well aware their momentum is beginning to slow down ahead of their clash with Hakoah Sydney City East on Sunday. John Carnevale’s side were held to a 0-0 stalemate with fellow chasers Sydney United 58 last weekend and have netted just one goal in their last four appearances. The visitors may just sense an opportunity to get their campaign back on track when they arrive at Lilys Football Centre. Hakoah slipped down to ninth position as a result of last week’s 3-0 defeat to Manly but have the attacking players and tactical nous to cause Blacktown problems.

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1 Dylan NISKI 1 GK Marley BEETSON 2 Alen AGANOVIC 2 Cameron WARD 3 Jared DULAURENT 3 Ethan TIPPING 5 Kristin PEREIRA 4 Jesse NAYLOR 6 Kye SOARES 5 Mitchell KNIGHT 7 Suleyman BANGURA 6 Jake LEES 8 Alex PURVES 7 Aswin ADINANTO 9 Franco MAYA 8 Jake GANNON 10 Daniel SALINAS 9 Damian DABIC 11 Matthew JOSEPH 10 Andre BIVIANO 12 Mitchell WHALLEY 11 Jesse TARASENKO 13 Daniel ZAHRA 12 Jake BESSER 14 Dean PELEKANOS 13 Jordan SWIBEL 15 Patrick IDAIRE 14 Matthew MIZZAU 16 Robert SUDZUM 15 Orlando NORMAN 28 Harry KHAMIS 16 Maximillian BALARD

Coach: Mark Gannon Coach: Nick Verdos Coach: Jason Conroy Manager: David Bransdon Manager: Marc Besser

UNDER 18s - PLAYSTATION 4 NPL NSW MEN’S POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Sydney FC 10 8 1 1 27 8 19 25 2 Rockdale City Suns FC 11 7 2 2 26 9 17 23 3 Manly United FC 11 6 4 1 18 12 6 22 4 Sutherland Sharks FC 11 5 1 5 17 18 -1 16 5 Wollongong Wolves FC 10 4 3 3 20 12 8 15 6 Sydney United 58 FC 11 4 3 4 16 17 -1 15 7 Parramatta FC 10 3 5 2 12 11 1 14 8 Blacktown City FC 11 4 1 6 14 11 3 13 9 Hakoah Sydney City East FC 11 3 3 5 16 24 -8 12 10 APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC 11 2 2 7 15 26 -11 8 11 Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC 10 1 5 4 11 24 -13 8 12 Sydney Olympic FC 11 0 4 7 11 31 -20 4

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ROUND 02 SAT 18TH MARCH 2 - 1 VS Sutherland Sharks FC

ROUND 04 SAT 1ST APRIL 2 - 0 Wollongong Wolves FC

ROUND 06 SAT 15TH APRIL 2 - 2 Parramatta FC

ROUND 08 SAT 29TH APRIL 3 - 2 VS Manly United FC

ROUND 11 SUN 21ST MAY 0 - 0 VS Sydney United 58 FC

ROUND 12 SUN 28TH MAY 15:00 VS Hakoah Sydney City East FC

ROUND 14 SUN 11TH JUNE 15:00 VS Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC

ROUND 16 SUN 25TH JUNE 15:00 VS Sydney FC

ROUND 18 SUN 16TH JULY 15:00 VS Sydney Olympic FC

ROUND 20 SUN 30TH JULY 15:00 VS Rockdale City Suns FC

ROUND 21 SUN 6TH AUGUST 15:00 VS APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC

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